News from reporter Austen Erblat: FREE community event in Lake Worth Beach to discuss sanctuary city ban.

According to the Sun Sentinel the Florida Immigrant Coalition will be at the Guatemalan Maya Center this coming Friday, June 21st, from 5:30–7:00. This event is open to the public and there is no charge for admission. This event will also have free food and drinks available for attendees.

The Guatemalan Maya Center is located at 430 North G St.

Here are two excerpts from the South Florida Sun Sentinel:


Last week, Gov. Ron DeSantis signed a bill banning so-called sanctuary cities, an issue that brought activists and protestors to the Florida Capitol from across the state when it was being discussed in the state legislature.

DeSantis ran for governor on the issue of promising to ban so-called sanctuary cities, which aim to prevent local law enforcement agencies from cooperating with federal immigration officials if they arrest immigrants for low level or nonviolent crimes. Some critics have called the bill unnecessary since Florida did not have any sanctuary jurisdictions, according to the Department of Justice.


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Now a group of organizations led by Florida Immigrant Coalition, who led the opposition efforts to the state’s senate and house bills in Tallahassee, will host a community awareness event to educate South Florida communities on what the bill means for them.


Click on this link to read the entire article in the Sun Sentinel.

It is worth noting the City of Lake Worth, now called Lake Worth Beach, was never a so-called ‘sanctuary city’ and the Town of Jupiter was also mistakenly confused as a sanctuary as well because that municipality is home to the El Sol Neighborhood Resource Center.

About the reporter at the Sun Sentinel:

Austen Erblat is a reporter covering various communities in Broward and Palm Beach counties for the Sun Sentinel Media Group. He has covered music, politics and environmental issues for regional and national papers, magazines and blogs. He graduated from Florida Atlantic University, where he was news editor and managing editor of the student paper.


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